I suppose many don't, from what I have heard-- but these situations are quite different from what I am accustomed to. Mayhap it is a difference in perspective.
[is it a valid difference? good question. but still.]
[Yasusada nods, but it's a little distracted, like he's still thinking.]
For me... of course I'm sad for them. I know that all humans die, but it still hurts a lot to lose some of them. [He's quiet for a minute.] But at the same time... maybe that's part of why we can love them so much? Because we miss them, and we know that we only have that short time to be with them. And that hole they leave behind in your heart, when they're gone--nothing can make that better. So you never forget them.
[He doesn't sound entirely sure, even as he speaks--it's as though he's trying to figure it out and explain it at the same time. His mission with Tomoe simultaneously feels like so long ago, and so recent in his memories; he still hasn't fully sorted out how he feels about it, save for knowing what's next on his own journey.]
I don't know. But I've never known anything different, and I've never really imagined what it would be like if we still had humans in our time. I wouldn't exist like this if we did.
[exhaling a long sigh, there, with a shake of his head.]
To attach oneself to them knowing it will only cause you pain, in the end-- 'twould be far better to keep your distance. From what I know of them thus far, even if they did continue to exist in your time, naught would end any differently. They would still lead fleeting lives, still cause you the same hurt... as well as themselves.
[It's not like Yasusada doesn't get the point he's making, but he smiles a little, shaking his head.]
Maybe it's different for you--but swords and humans go together. We were made by them, for them. Without humans, we wouldn't exist at all.
[Both in the sense of having no purpose, and quite literally; the metal that forms his body would be nothing more than a lump of iron in a mountainside. With no one to have wielded and loved him as they did, he never would've come into being.]
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I suppose so. I've never thought about it that way before.
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[is it a valid difference? good question. but still.]
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For me... of course I'm sad for them. I know that all humans die, but it still hurts a lot to lose some of them. [He's quiet for a minute.] But at the same time... maybe that's part of why we can love them so much? Because we miss them, and we know that we only have that short time to be with them. And that hole they leave behind in your heart, when they're gone--nothing can make that better. So you never forget them.
[He doesn't sound entirely sure, even as he speaks--it's as though he's trying to figure it out and explain it at the same time. His mission with Tomoe simultaneously feels like so long ago, and so recent in his memories; he still hasn't fully sorted out how he feels about it, save for knowing what's next on his own journey.]
I don't know. But I've never known anything different, and I've never really imagined what it would be like if we still had humans in our time. I wouldn't exist like this if we did.
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[exhaling a long sigh, there, with a shake of his head.]
To attach oneself to them knowing it will only cause you pain, in the end-- 'twould be far better to keep your distance. From what I know of them thus far, even if they did continue to exist in your time, naught would end any differently. They would still lead fleeting lives, still cause you the same hurt... as well as themselves.
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Maybe it's different for you--but swords and humans go together. We were made by them, for them. Without humans, we wouldn't exist at all.
[Both in the sense of having no purpose, and quite literally; the metal that forms his body would be nothing more than a lump of iron in a mountainside. With no one to have wielded and loved him as they did, he never would've come into being.]
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[such is the fate of certain creations, yes, and in an ideal situation this is as it should be. but with creators like that...
maybe it's unfortunate for the swords, as well.]
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What about you?